Elon Musk thinks a third of visible Twitter accounts could be bots, but researchers have their reservations.
Filings made by Elon Musk's legal team in his battle with Twitter have been questioned by leading bot researchers.
Mr Musk is currently in dispute with Twitter, after trying to pull out of a deal to purchase the company for $44bn . Since then, the world's richest person has claimed repeatedly that fake and spam accounts could be many times higher than stated by Twitter.he claimed a third of visible Twitter accounts, assessed by his team, were fake. Using that figure the team estimated that a minimum of 10% of daily active users are bots.Correct thresholdlike when and how often an account tweets and the content of the posts, to create a bot "score" out of five.
"In order to estimate the prevalence [of bots] you need to choose a threshold to cut the score," says Mr Yang.
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